Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth
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The Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth was the intensive, nearly two-week pursuit across the American countryside to capture the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln following the 1865 Ford’s Theatre shooting.
All labels observed (1)
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| Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12044231 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth Context triple: [16th New York Cavalry Regiment, participatedIn, Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth]
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A.
Killing Lincoln
Killing Lincoln is a historical docudrama film that dramatizes the events leading up to and following the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a historical television film dramatizing the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Murder in the White House
Murder in the White House is a political mystery novel by Elliott Roosevelt that features a fictionalized Eleanor Roosevelt solving a murder inside the presidential residence.
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D.
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Lincoln Conspiracy is a 1977 historical thriller film that dramatizes an alternative theory about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, suggesting a broader political plot behind the crime.
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E.
The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister
The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister is a posthumously published memoir by Asia Booth Clarke offering an intimate, firsthand portrait of her brother, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth Target entity description: The Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth was the intensive, nearly two-week pursuit across the American countryside to capture the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln following the 1865 Ford’s Theatre shooting.
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A.
Killing Lincoln
Killing Lincoln is a historical docudrama film that dramatizes the events leading up to and following the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a historical television film dramatizing the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Murder in the White House
Murder in the White House is a political mystery novel by Elliott Roosevelt that features a fictionalized Eleanor Roosevelt solving a murder inside the presidential residence.
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D.
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Lincoln Conspiracy is a 1977 historical thriller film that dramatizes an alternative theory about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, suggesting a broader political plot behind the crime.
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E.
The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister
The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister is a posthumously published memoir by Asia Booth Clarke offering an intimate, firsthand portrait of her brother, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.